UBS pays $1.7 mn for `apparent` sanctions violations

Last Updated: Friday, August 28, 2015, 02:08

The Swiss bank UBS has agreed to pay US authorities $1.7 million to settle "apparent" violations of rules banning transactions benefiting officially designated terrorists, the Treasury Department said Thursday.

Treaty regulating global arms trade takes effect today

Last Updated: Wednesday, December 24, 2014, 02:11

A landmark treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade comes into force tomorrow, a milestone hailed by the United Nations and campaigners seeking to stop weapons sales to dictators, terrorists and human rights abusers.

Iraq attacks kill 7 as govt forces hit Anbar militants

Last Updated: Sunday, February 2, 2014, 21:40

Iraqi government forces pressed their assault on militant strongholds in Anbar province today as attacks elsewhere in the country killed seven people, with intensifying violence fuelling fears of a return to all-out conflict.

UN Security Council says no to ransom to terrorists

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 28, 2014, 07:19

The UN Security Council Monday adopted a resolution calling on all countries not to pay ransom to terrorists in incidents of kidnapping and hostage-taking, Xinhua reported.

Pakistan ammends terror detention ordinance

Last Updated: Friday, January 24, 2014, 01:33

Pakistan has amended a controversial ordinance to allow security forces to detain terror suspects for over 90 days without trial.

Terrorists try to attack India`s secularism, democracy: Shinde

Last Updated: Monday, January 20, 2014, 16:07

Terrorists and extremists seek to attack the democratic and secular fabric of the country and they would continue to try to keep everyone on tenterhooks, Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said on Monday.

Russia nabs five terror suspects in North Caucasus

Last Updated: Saturday, January 11, 2014, 23:15

Five terror suspects were detained today in one of Russia`s North Caucasus provinces as the country`s security agencies were scrambling to uproot any potential threat to the Sochi Games.

38 terrorists killed in Nigeria, says military

Last Updated: Friday, January 10, 2014, 07:53

Nigeria`s troops in northeast state of Borno said Thursday that 38 Boko Haram suspects were killed after it successfully repelled an attack on Damboa community in by suspected Boko Haram fighters.

One cop killed, three injured in Sopore encounter

Last Updated: Tuesday, January 7, 2014, 12:15

A policeman was killed and three others injured in a fierce encounter between security forces and terrorists at Chankhan area of Sopore town in Jammu and Kashmir`s Baramulla district.

`Jihad Jane` gets 10 years in US in terror plot

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 23:12

A US woman involved in a plot to kill a Swedish artist who had offended Muslims has been sentenced to 10 years in prison after telling a judge she was once obsessed with jihad.

Yemen tribesmen blow up oil pipeline after army killing

Last Updated: Monday, January 6, 2014, 20:24

Tribesmen in Yemen`s restive Hadramawt province blew up a major oil pipeline in retaliation for the killing by the army of one of their men, officials said on Monday.

China denounces US for sending Uighur "terrorists" to Slovakia

Last Updated: Friday, January 3, 2014, 02:04

China`s Foreign Ministry criticised the United States on Thursday for sending the last three Uighur Chinese inmates at the Guantanamo Bay detention centre to Slovakia, saying they were "terrorists" who posed a real security danger.